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C. H. SGHLAAOK.

ROAD CART.

No. 341,281. Patented May 4, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. SCHLAAOK, OF BIG BEAVER, MICHIGAN.

ROAD CART.

SPEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,281, datedMay 4, 1886.

Application filed August 3, 1885.

To all whom it may concern;

Be itknown that 1, CHARLES H. SGHLAACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Big Beaver, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Road-Carts; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will on able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in road-carts; and it consists in the manner of coupling the thills with the body of the box, so as to overcome the horse-motion.

My invention further consists in the general arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming apart of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation having parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan. Fig. 4 is an e11- larged detail in section.

A represents the body of the box; IV, the wheel or wheels. I G is the axle, which is slightly depressed, as shown in Fig. 2. S is the seat, and D is the dash, all of which are common. g are the ordinary elliptic springs,which are attached to the axle and to the bottom of the box by means of transverse bars (I (I, which are bent upward at the ends, and are attached to and below the upper leaves of the springs by means of the hasps h 71.

The body of the box is provided on each side, at a, with journals formed on the projecting ends of the bar L, which is attached to the bottom of the box, crossing near the front end, as shown. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) Said journals are fitted within boxes a attached to the side bars, 13 B, thus securing the box pivotally to the side bars. The rear ends of said side bars are attached pivotally to the transverse springs n a. Said springs at their inner ends are bent over themselves, as shown in Fig. 2. Said bent end portions are attached to a bar, B, (which crosses the bottom of the box,) being placed side by side, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Passing through said bar near Serial No. 173.377. (No model.)

each end is a pair of hangers, h h. Saidhangers also pass through the bottom F of the box, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The upper ends are screw-threaded and secured by nuts 0 6. Between said hangers and below the bottom of the box I secure two rubber cushions, 0 0, through which I pass the metal pipes or thimbles Z Z, and through said pipes and the faces of the hangers I pass bolts 1- r, and by nuts a a, said parts are firmly bound together, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The springs a pass between said hangers and the cushions, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4..

To the front ends of the side bars, 13 B, I attach the upwardly-curved brace-ironst t. Said brace-irons are attached to the cross-bar E of the thills by means of clips or eyebolts 8, passing through saidbraee-rods, and bolted to the upper face of the side bars are brace'irons 'v e. I form a lug, z, upon each of the curved bra-ceirons t t, to which I pivot the rod 0. Said rod or rods are screw-threaded at the free ends. To the under side of the thills m m, I bolt a downwardly-extending brace, a, which is also screw-threaded at the free end. The threaded end of said brace and the rod 0 are made right and left, and engage with the threaded female coupling f.

It will be observed from the foregoing that the body of the box is pivoted at a on each side to the side bars, B B, and as the thills are firmly attached to said side bars the up and-down movement of the horse, as in traveling, causes the side bars to rock upon the pivots a a, thereby throwing up and down the rear ends of the side bars, and as the transverse springs n n are attached to the bottom of the box and to the rear ends of the side bars the box is kept on a level and the horse-motion is brought upon the springs a )1. Should the wheels drop into a rut or strike an obstruction, said springs will be thrown up and down, and to prevent said springs from breaking I support in hangers the rubber cushions c c, for said springs to strike upon, the cushions preventing noise and a sudden strike or jar of the body.

The object of the coupling f, connecting the thill-rods 0 c, is for the following purposes: In hitching the vehicle to a small or low horse,

to keep the body level the couplings f are and attached thereto as set forth, and having turned so as to draw the free ends of the rods 0 0 toward each other, thus throwing the outer ends of the thills down to hitch to a low 5 horse andkeep the body on a level. In hitching to a taller horse the coupling f is turned in an opposite direction, when the free ends of the rods 0 0 will be thrown apart, thus throwing up the outer ends of the thills, keeping [0 the body level.

Having thus fully set forth mypresent invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa i In a road-cart, and in combination, the body I 5 having the cross-bar B, the springs n a,formed their free ends attached to the rear ends of the side bars, B B, the hangers each having the cushions c c, the side bars pivotally attached to the front of the body, and having 20 upwardly-curved extensions tt, their free ends being attached to the thills, as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. SGHLAAOK.

Witnesses:

R. B. WHEELER, JNo. G. DOYLE. 

